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Also known as parish seats, parish capitals, parish seat, shire town, borough seat, county site

administrative center for a county or civil parish in the United States

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A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in six countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. An equivalent term, shire town, is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions.

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